The series also visited Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom during the season, while Formula Renault 3.5 had an extra race on its own, in support of the Monaco Grand Prix in May.
[3] The F4 Eurocup – making its debut on the World Series by Renault programme in 2010 – did not visit Brno, and thus that championship's calendar was only seven rounds.
However, Charouz was disqualified after the race due to a technical irregularity,[5] which promoted Ricciardo to second place and Nathanaël Berthon to third.
[8] Vergne was making only his third start in the series after replacing Brendon Hartley at Tech 1 Racing, having already secured the British Formula 3 Championship in dominant fashion.
Ricciardo himself was in the wars after rolling his car just yards after the start of the race, due to a collision with Fortec Motorsport's Jon Lancaster.
Guerrieri did secure his fifth win at Silverstone, taking the second race ahead of Ricciardo and Vergne and moved within 16 points of Aleshin with a round to go.
Both season-opening races at Motorland Aragón were won by Eurocup debutant Kevin Korjus, who had moved up from the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup over the off-season.
Arthur Pic took his first Eurocup win at Spa, but Korjus finished second in order to extend his championship lead over Luciano Bacheta.
It would be as close as the pair would get as Korjus unleashed a dominating finish to the championship, amassing a tally of 87 points out of a possible 90 at the final three meetings, with five wins and a second place.
At Brno, Stefano Comini added a first and a second to his third from Spa, and moved into an early championship lead ahead of Pierre Thiriet and Nick Catsburg, who won the other race.
Thiriet and Catsburg each won a race at Magny-Cours and the Hungaroring to move themselves ahead of Comini in the championship, who struggled to keep with the pair, amassing just ten points over the two meetings.